[PATCH net-next v7 3/3] net: stmmac: dwmac-nuvoton: Add dwmac glue for Nuvoton MA35 family

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Joey,


Thank you for your prompt reply.


Am 15.01.25 um 10:03 schrieb Joey Lu:

> Paul Menzel 於 1/14/2025 9:49 AM 寫道:

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>> Am 13.01.25 um 00:54 schrieb Joey Lu:
>>> Add support for Gigabit Ethernet on Nuvoton MA35 series using dwmac 
>>> driver.

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>> Also, please document how tested the driver. Maybe even paste new log 
>> messages.
> 
> These are the kernel configurations for testing the MA35D1 GMAC driver: 
> ARCH_MA35, STMMAC_PLATFORM, DWMAC_NUVOTON.
> 
> I'm not sure if this information is sufficient, so please provide some 
> guidance on what else I should include to meet your requirements.

I’d be interested on what hardware you tested it. Probably some 
evaluation or customer reference board.

> I will include the log messages at the end of the email.

Awesome. Thank you. Personally, I also like to see those in the commit 
message.

>>> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
>>> Signed-off-by: Joey Lu <a0987203069 at gmail.com>
>>
>> As you use your company email address in the AUTHOR line below, please 
>> also add that email address to the commit message (and maybe even as 
>> the author).
>
> I will update the AUTHOR to use my personal email address instead of the 
> company email.

Understood. (yclu4 at nuvoton.com is also personal, but the Gmail address 
is private, I guess. ;-)).

For statistics, how companies contribute to the Linux kernel, having the 
company address somewhere would be nice though, as you are doing this as 
your work at Nuvoton, right?

>>> ---
>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig   |  11 ++
>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile  |   1 +
>>>   .../ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-nuvoton.c   | 179 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>   3 files changed, 191 insertions(+)
>>>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-nuvoton.c

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> log:
> 
> [    T0] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x411fd040]

Out of curiosity, how do you get these timestamps T0, T1, …?

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Thank you and kind regards,

Paul